Face recognition: Better than any computer: super-recognizers memorize every face - and thus find criminals

Where did he see the three men? At the cathedral? In the subway? Yannick Heinrich* ponders.

Face recognition: Better than any computer: super-recognizers memorize every face - and thus find criminals

Where did he see the three men? At the cathedral? In the subway? Yannick Heinrich* ponders. He's been walking through this shopping center in Weiden, west of Cologne, for more than an hour, arrested three shoplifters with his colleagues, wolfed down a Thai curry for lunch and was about to leave the shopping mile when he noticed the three men. The faces look familiar. And these jackets, two black, one green.

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